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Anti - Partition   Violence   Erupts
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Ltd.
I AVE.
ONE 7311
Britain, Saudi
Arabia, Send
Aid To Kuwait
By JOHN ORGAN
KUWAIT TOWN, (Reuters)—British and Saudi
Arabian troops continued to pour into Kuwait Sunday to bolster the oil-rich sheikdom's defences in the
face of threatened annexation by neighbouring Iraq.
Troop transport planes landed in steady succession at the two airports here as British warships unloaded tanks and armored cars on the beaches.
Helicopters ran a shuttle service of troops from the warships.
■jG AT DOCK—The United States tugboat, the USS Ozette, is shown tied up
Tthe dockyard pier in St. John's, awaiting her turn to go on dry dock for
pairs. The CNR has received a contract from the United States to repair
•o tug? this summer, and the Ozette goes on dock shortly. The other tug-
«t will wait outside, and enter later,—(Daily News Photo).
Security
Complaint
Of
ears
(uwait
S
.Name
ABUCK
tah
Bv MILTON
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -I
rilain told the UN Security,
)uncil Sunday its troops in Ku- i
|ait will go into action in the'
Iraqi troops cross
fc-rieh desert sheikdom,
{But Iraq denied any intention
employing t'oro«>-4o-'bulwjrk-i
claims lo Kuwait, and called
the council to demand the
Minconditior.al and immediate 1
"ithdrawal" of British forces
ing into Kuwait by air and
[These weic the highlights of
extraordinary   Sunday   ses-
Jon of the  it-nation   council,
■lied at the request of Kuwait,
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now seeking admission to' the'object to Hie counci  taking up
United Nations as a newly inde- i the issue.
pendent nation. i   Sir Patrick Dean, thc British
After listening to speeches by t delegate, defended the dispatch
Britain. Iraq and the United:of forces to Kuwait at the re-
Arab Republic, thc council was! quest, of thc ruler, Sheik Sir Ab-
adjourned  until Wednesday.      I diilluh Jis-Salim As-Sabalu
Valerian Zorin, Soviet delc-j Reports that Iraqi forces *—■
•gate,«iL^tfc:ramciV^
clue as to wMetfier"'Moscow will ['Baghdad' to" the Kuwait. 1
support   Iraq's   contention  that "not only increased the already
Kuwait is part of Iraq.  "It is .existing  Iraqi  potential  to  at-
too early to say," he told n re- tifek.  but indicated its possible
porter. ! imminence."
NO OBJECTIONS !   Dean declared that the troops
In the meeting, he said Brit-' would be withdrawn as soon as
ish support of Kuwait's case cast \ tho sheik "consider. Ihe threat
doubt on the facts ns reported ■ lo the independence of his conn-,
from the area, but hc did not try is over."
Housewife Breaks
Red-Inspired Strike
DAGENHAM,   England   (AP) I FIRST PUBLIC SPEECH
housewife has emerged
loree that broke a Commuted week - long wildcat
pe against ihe Ford Motor
™pany plant here. She talked
NO strikers, mostly men, into
j>in? back to work.
AH week Mrs. Evelyn Smith,
>'«of a worker at the plant,,
toned to speeches by strike
!ii«i and watched the stop-
i» eat into the family's holi-
'■>' savings.
Finally she'd had enough,
ushing her way through hun-
ed5 ol strikers  Friday,   she
""nted a  platform,   grabbed
microphone and shouted:
»*t the  opposit on   have   a
|°™. I'm not a trade unionist,
"i an ordinary wife of a Ford
Pr«r and I think V
»peak-wh>
ids to work'
For Mrs, Smith, in her mid-.
50s, it was the first time on a
public platform. There were!
some jeers and catcalls. Strike;
leaders shooed her off the platform, j
But her outburst made its]
mark.
In the subsequent vole the I
strikers decided to defy their |
leaders and return to work today.
Mrs. Smith. sai 1 later al
home:
"I don't know v
Quiet Spot
RUSSELLVILLE, Ala (AP) -
The man said he was only looking for a quiet place to read his
Bible. Officers arrested Floyd
Oliver, 40, anyway. He was
reading his Bible sitting atop a
flM-galion liquor still.
I
They joined some 750 British
troops, most of them commandos, who landed near this sweltering town Saturday.
j Roads to the Iraq border, 80
miles north of Kuwait Town,!
have been blocked by a heavy
guard. |
The deployment of some of
the troops has been delayed by
blistering sandstorms which at
one stage blotted out one ot the
airfields. „
MACMILLAN CONFERS
Prime Minister Macmillan,
who said Saturday he "trusts"
Iraq will not force a showdown,
conferred with his senior cabinet and military chiefs in London as Britain came under
heavy attack for her actions.
Authoritative sources said the
meeting was called to take stock
of the Kuwait situation and
would be followed today by a
full statement to Parliament.
The meeting consisted of the
same group of ministers and defence chiefs who conferred with
Macmillan Saturday
diately after the announcement
of the landing of British forces
in the Persian Gulf sheikdom.
The Soviet Communist party
W'of attempting to" eYp ■ oi.' t Si«
Kuwait crisis "to sharpen tension in the whole Arab world.""
Britain's "provocative role" in
the crisis, the paper says, "is
becoming more and more obvious."
In Cairo, the newspaper Al
Ahram says the "Suez" of Iraqi
Premier Abdul Ka im Kassem
has brought "British imperialism" back "to "our part of the
Arab homeland."
BRITISH PLOT j
The newspaper Al Ayam in,
Damascus claims the Iraqi-Kuwaiti dispute' was a British-inspired plot.
Al Ayam says the plot was
organized because Britain "had
been sorry to gran  Kuwait tn
ERNEST
HEMINGWAY
DIES
SUN VALLEY, Idaho <AP)-
Ernest Hemingway, 62, the
American novelist who gained
fame writing of death and
violence, accidentally killed
himself Sunday while cleaning a
gun, his wife said.
Mrs. Mary Hemingway issued
this brief statement:
"Mr. Hemingway accidentally
killed himself while cleaning a
gun this morning at 7:30 a.m.
No time has been set for the I
funeral services, which will
private."
In   Algiers
10 Dead, 71 Hurt
In Moslem Riots
Later  it was  announced  the!
funeral   will   bc   Triday,   i
burial in nearby Ketchum.
Coroner   Ray   McGoldrick   on
Blaine County said Hemingway'   Nearly   10,000   Moslems
was shot  in  the   head  at  his tended  the  funeral   in  Algiers
Canyon home in Ketchum, near Sunday of two Moslems
here. in clashes with the police.
Authorities   said   a   shotgun
ALGIERS, (Reuters)—Moslem workers returned to work Sunday and Moslem stores were open as
usual after a rebel-ordered strike and nationalist
riots Saturday in which 11 persons were killed and
71 injured.
The riots, coupled with 24-1
hour strikes which paralyzed!
public transport and closed
stores in several towns, were
organized in protest against a
possible partition of Algeria—a
last-ditch Franch plan if the rebels refuse to agree to France's j
proposals for safeguarding the!
European minority in an independent Algeria.
calm returned Sunday mornini
after a night marked by six
grenade and plastic bomb explosions. A Moslem described
by police as a terrorist leadei
was shot and killed by security'
forces during the night.
Police said that among many
persons arrested Saturday was
Dominique Zattara, described
as one of the heads of the anti-
Gaullist "secret army organization,"   who  has   been   charged .
i with participating in last April's
[ abortive army revolt.
newspaper   Le.
dependence and thus leave $672,-
000,000 worth of oil royalties al
the mercy of a future surprise."
So Britain "instructed Kassem!
to announce his claim to Kuwait
wilh  the  intention  of  creating,   .„.„„„,.,„    „„.„    „   „...„„.„,
panic and consequently return- j blast killed him. '   The  crowd  dispersed  without, Monde says that by organizing
ing her protection to Kuwait at! ; incident, but despite the calm | the demonstrations  and  strike!
the   request   of   the   Kuwaiti!   The  coroner  said  that  upon  Moslem suburbs and the central|in   Algeria,   the   insurgent  Na-
ruler." I the advice of the county pros-1 Casbah were still encircled by j tional Liberation Front was "ap.
In Washington, the state dc-|ecutor, V. K. Jeppesen, it had: not Police A curfew was en- parently trying to demonstrate
partment said it believed that i been decided that no inquest f°>'«d from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. ! the hold it has over centres
Britain  has   acted   "quite   ap-: would be necessary. CALM RETURNS i which,  in  any partition  plans,
propriately." !    "There is no indication of foul i     In    Oran,   western    Algeria, > would be
Meanwhile, five American j play," said McGoldrick. "His:
warships, including two fast de-|wife thought it was accidental
stroyers, headed toward Kuwait
from Cape Town ready to evacuate Americans in the sheikdom
in the event of an Iraqi invasion: American officials in
Washington said thc ships which
were scheduled to make a five-
day visit to Cape Town, would
not be used in any military ac-
• French zone."
tion,
SASKATOON (CP) - Coin-
operated automatic laundries
will be allowed to remain open
in Saskatchewan on Sundays,
Attorney - General Robert
Walker snid Thursday. Mr.
Walker said the government
feels .coin   operated   automatic
.lmindriet-.Bia i^tJ&jart^etess.
7*111.-" Otter cfcJn ---oUerate-I ;!?.-
vices like candy ;and ciagaret
vending machines.
RELEASED FROM CLINIC
The barrel-chested writer was
released from the Mayo Clinic
at Rochester, Minn., just last
Monday where he had been
under treatment for hypertension, high blood pressure. He
and his wife came to then-
Idaho home by auto.
The   noted   writer   originally
entered the clinic Nov
and left there   for   his
Macmillan
To Protect Interests
Of Commonwealth
home last Jan. 23. But he returned April 25. On May :
spokes nan  for  the  Mayos
scribed   his  condition   as
jeellent" and said tiis could be
iMerprefeif 5as * meaning,'■" there-
was a general improvement in
the writer's health.
BOWOOD, England (Reuters*
1900, | prime Minister Macmillan re-
Idaho j assured his Commonwealth part-
Hitch Crops Up  On
Laos Equipment Issue
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iorte.
inthony.
By MOIISIN  ALI
GENEVA   (Reuters)-A  last- [
minute  hitch  cropped  up  Sun-
I day night on the vital issue of
made mo j scnding equipment to the three-,
do it. But listening to all thatnalion   commission   supervising
strike  nonsense  made  me  see j the cease-fire in Laos, author.-
red. I'm fed up seeing my hus- j tativc sources said.
band sitting   around   miserable1   Thn smirccs said a message
at h,01™- . on thc equipment   rom Britain
"He   is   the   quid   type   and: aiul  K„ssiil|  as co-chairmen of
think I'm entitlediwould  say  nothing.  The union;the   14-nation   Loos   conference
don't you all go Headers just don't represent thejhere,   has   been   temporarily!
' men any more." j withheld from deli -cry to the ■
IIUBBY IS PROUD commission   on   India,   Canada!
Said her husband, Ernest:  "I, and Poland.   '■■ ■ \
was amaze'd. I had no idea what)   The British and Soviet confer-1
she was up to. Now I'm proud."| once   co - chairmen,   Malcolm'
The rcturn-to-work vote was aiMacDonald and Georgi Pushkin,
big blow to the Communist-dom-1 agrccrj Saturday on the as-yet-
inated strike   leadership   which; undisclosed message to the com-1
had kept 32.000 Ford employees i mission on the key issue of sup-
idle since Monday. t plying it with helicopters, light
  | aircraft, jeeps and other equlp-
EXPLAINS   RIOTS I        ■   •, „„-•-.„ ;, ,0 -„,;„. tne
VANCOUVER (CP) - A de- truce more effectively,
sire to speed thc development      _>.tJ,uinalie  sources  said the
Accident Toll
.CHICAGO -CPl - Traffic ac-
P«s in the United States for
F. ]m*   Independence    Day
pnend   were   at a   rate   oi
e than 25 per cent higher1
1 'or a non-holiday weekend,
Rational Safety Council said
[J» Associated Press eompiln-
p showed lhat Irom B p.m.
P time Friday until 5 p.m.
rr7'221 P^sons had died on
' roads.
Additionally. 39 were drowned,
'If'*1*1 in boating accidents
■^"miscellaneous mishaps.
Weather
Gwdy, with sunny per-
llo,is- High today 65.
Temperatures
Toronto .
I Sydney \
Min Max
Night" Day
of democracy lies behind much
of thc rioting in Japan, Yuklo
Ishizuka of Tokyo said here
Thursday. Ishizuka is one of
five Japanese students here to]
attend the1 University ,of British
'Columbia summer school as
part of an exchange program
between UBC and-Keio University.
-ELISABETHVILLE.(AP) -
President Molse Tshombe said
Thursday he will send Katanga's deputies- to the -Congolese parliament. although he
still considers his province independent* from, the rest of The
Congo, Tshomis made his re-J
marks at a'press conference.]
He'did little'to clarify, the apparent contradictors in his position on independence and co-,
operation with The Congo's parliament.
some phrases in the text of the
message'and raised certain objections.
HARRIMAN IN PARIS
Averell Harriman chief U.S.
delegate to the conference, arrived in Paris Sunday from
Washington where he had been
consulting with government
leaders on the progress of the
conference. .
Diplomatic sources said the
two co-chairmen had agreed:
1. The commission should try
to hire or', purchase the equipment from1 the warring parties
a. The equipment should be.
under the effective control of the
commission.
3. The commission should ask
the co-chairmen for the equipment that it needs and cannot
get, because of technical or
other reasons, from the parties
in Laos.
FLAG OFFICER LAYS WREATH—Rear-Admiral
K."L. Dyer, Flag Officer Atlantic Coast, lays a wreath
for the RCN on the War Memorial in St. John's. The
Royal Newfoundland Regiment, Canada's oldest, was
all but wiped out at Beaumont-Hamel in the First
World War. Newfoundland remembers the July 1,
191*6, action on the first Sunday of July. Admiral
Dyer's headquarters are in Halifax.—(National Defence Photo).
ners that their interests will bc
protected in any negotiations by
Britain for admittance into the
European Common Market.
Macmillan told a Conservative
•parTf-Tally" at this "Wiltshire
community near Colne Saturday that Britain has no intention of placing Commonwealth
interests second. ;
"In any discussions with the]
countries of the six, we mustj
make sure that our ideas are in
line with those of the Commonwealth.
"On the political side, I have
no doubt that the Commonwealth would actually be
strengthened if we could succeed in reaching a fair agreement with Europe."
However, he scoffed at British leaders who "advise us that
all we have to do is just to sign j
the treaty of Rome" which inl
'""   grouped   West   Germany,!
France,  Italy,  Belgium,   the j
Netherlands    and   Luxembourg
into the common market.
CHALLENGE OF TIMES
Macmillan said he is equally!
at odds with those who think no
solution on the common market1
Prime Minister Macmillaa ,
issue is possible.
"The whole trend of the
shrinking modern world is toward greater unity. It is the
challenge of our time. We do not
fear it."
Britain's tradition has never
been "to live in glorious isolation. All her history has been in
association with others."
Parliament At A Glance
By THE CANADIAN PRESS
Saturday, July 1, 1961
"ie Commons worked a:
usual on Dominion Day, spending most of a 5te-hour sitting
on drab debate of works and
forestry spending estimates.
Prime Minister Diefenbaker
announced a further deferment,
to next Dec. 31, of freight rate
increases on grain moving from
Georgian Bay to Atlantic Ports.
Finance Minister Fleming pre-!
sented further supplementary |
estimates of $20,305,000, including aid to Prairie cattle raisers
and P.E.I. potato growers.       |
The Liberals lost by a vote of]
73 to 16 an attempt to sidetrack
the works debate for one on the|
government bill to fire Governor James E. Coyne of the
Bank of Canada.
The Commons received the|
report of its public accounts   committee   recommend-
Capital Observes Canada's 94th. Birthday
OTTAWA (CP) - A stirring
spectacle of military pagentry,
martial music and the scream
of jet fighters unfolded on Parliament Hill Saturday in the
capital's formal observance of
Canada's,94th birthday:
A crowd of 20.000 ringed' the
spacious lawns in front of the
Peace Tower for the three-hour
long ceremony in which
Governor - General Vanier—
who returned only 24 hours,earlier from a tour of thc Northwest
Territories—took   the  salute  of1
parading navy, army and air
force units.
The weather was perfect-
sunny skies, a light breeze and
temperatures in the low 70s. ;
RCMP and army officials who
estimated the size of the crowds \
said it was one of the largest
ever to gather on the Parliament grounds, exceeded.only by
royal visits.
The Dominion Day observance in Ottawa began at noon
with the firing of a 21-gun salute from a point just cast of
Parliament Hill.
PERFORM DANCES
In the' afternoon 50 singers
and dancers of Mon real's Feux-
Follets ensemble performed in
a 90-minute program of folk
dances and songs from around
the world. A crowd of more than
5,000 watched this salute to Can-
da's ethnic groups
During the' day more than
4,000 tourists toured the main
Parliament building where the:
Commons was in session.
evening huge crowds were'
swarming the lawns, overflowing the 2,000 - seat viewing
stands, to witness the military
show. : _    . "/'',..' '■'.;■.'..
' Gen. and Mme. Vanier ■ arrived for the . trooping. of. the
color by the 2nd Battalion," Canadian .Guards,, and its massed
regimental bands.' '•'.-:■•
Prime Minister and Mrs. Diefenbaker welcomed -the vice-re-
:ouple.    ■ •      ....••■';
I RCAF's salute, played by
the RCAF Central Band, was
accompanied by _ the flypast of I
35 CF-100 jet interceptors. They!
came from RCAF bases at Ot-
ing a tightening up of administration in the defence, department.
Acting Revenue Minister Mon- j
teith said a visit to Montreal's |
Jean Talon hospital by two rev- !
enue inspectors was a "routine
procedure."
Monday, July 3
The   Commons   meets   at   11 I
a.m. EDT on the 148th sitting
day  of  the  session  to  debate
Criminal Code and budget: legis- ■
lation. The Senate is adjourned •
until 8 p.m. Tuesday. j
Keep Wary Eye
Dn Social Credit
OTTAWA (CP) - The "ins"
will be watching the "outs" with
more than usual interest this
week! when the Social Credit national convention meets here to
write a new party platform and
choose a new leader.
It will be the third of four big
political rallies this year, with
._..._. each of the political parties
tawa, North Bay, Ont., St. Hu- keeping close check on the other
bert, Que., and Bagotville, Que.
RCN CLOSES CEREMONY
Closing ceremonies were!
staged by. 155 men from. HMCS
Cornwallis at Digby,: N.S.', who
performed the navy's moving |
'sunset' ceremony with'the crackling gunfire of a 48-man rifle
guard   and  the., roar, of-  12-1
ounder naval-guns
The final march brought to-1
gethcr four brass and reed
bands and three pipe bands repj-[,
resenting all three services. ■"•'VJ
With no Social Credit MPs. to
the' present Parliament, but with
Social Credit governments
[firmly' in power in British Columbia and Alberta the-theme
of the convention speeches; is expected to -be "On To 'Ottawa!".
That is exactly why-the. Conservative, Liberal, and CCF-j
[New Party leaders are• keeping II
a wary eye-opened. >